Money Quotes

If we find a company we like, the level of the market will not really impact our decisions.  We will decide company by company.  We spend essentially no time thinking about macroeconomic factors.  In other words, if somebody handed us a predictions by the most revered intellectual on the subject, with figures for unemployment or interest rates, or whatever it might be for the next two years, we would not pay any attention to it.  We simply try to focus on businesses that we think we understand and where we like the price and management.  If we see anything that relates to what’s going to happen in Congress, we don’t even read it.  We just don’t think it’s helpful to have a view on these matters.

- Warren Buffett¹

1. Comment by Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Omaha, 1992 (As reported in “How to Buffett Against the Perils of Perots,” Herb Ross, Westfield Leader, August 6, 1992) [↩]